to predict
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3.0
- verb
- /prɪˈdɪkt/
:
predecir
- Scientists often use data to predict future weather patterns accurately.
- predict the outcome
- predict the future
- predict using a model
Like no one would have predicted that kind of band.
- Like no one would have predicted that kind of band.
- Is it consistent with what inflation predicts, or does it not match?
- Other than that, you want to predict what's going to go right.
- There is no technology that can predict where the sparks will appear.
- In fact, the labor market is better at predicting downturns.
- So it takes the past to predict the future, Warning, warning.
- You can't predict when it's going to happen.
- As as predicted by the God who came.
Examples
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Changes in hard drug arrest rates did not predict changes in IDU population rates.
Academic text (2011) -
Parental expectations also have occupied a central place in predicting the educational outcomes of students.
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Why do people get paid so much to predict fear?
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Alternative is to say we predict good care all the time.
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But it's just hard to predict a complete view.
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All right, did you guys predict what we just did?
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So what would you predict and what cause would it go to?
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Failure to predict future violence?
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There is no technology that can predict where the sparks will appear.
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A lot of really smart, experienced people couldn't predict it, right?
Synonyms
109
3.2
To expect that something will happen
77
3.9
To know or expect something before it happens
54
2.5
To say what will probably happen using information, for example about weather or business
41
7.0
To say what will happen in the future
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4.7
To say you are sure something will happen as if you had risked money on it
28
7.4
To say what will happen in the future, often claiming it comes from a god
16
6.2
To give a small sign that something will happen in the future
16
7.2
To be a sign that something good or bad will happen
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8.4
To show that something, often bad, will probably happen
5
8.8
To show that something bad will happen
4
8.6
To be a sign that something will happen
3
9.3
To say what will happen in the future using clues
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9.3
To be a sign of something
1
8.0
To be a sign that something will happen later
To say what will happen in the future because someone has spiritual power
To know something before it happens
Predict an event from a sign or dream
To seem to show that something bad will happen
To say what will happen by reading signs
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
predict = pre + dict
The prefix 'pre' ('before') is clear, but the root 'dict' is a Latin combining form (not a standalone English word) meaning 'say', so the full sense 'say beforehand' is only partially obvious to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
The word predict comes from two simple parts: pre- 'before' and dict from dicere 'to say', the same root you see in dictionary. So to predict is to 'say before' something happens.